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A Transcript: A Conversation Between CIA Director Hoskins and Secretary of State Roberts Regarding Details Of The Case Of Deceased Field Agents Virginia Hart and Shannon Wright:

Roberts: But why would the CIA order a shoot-to-kill against a USI agent?

Hoskins: It’s hard to give a credible answer without divulging state secrets.

Roberts: This is a privileged conversation. I’m the Secretary of State. I’d say you can speak freely here.

Hoskins: Mrs. Hart was acting insubordinately and was completely destroying an undercover operation we’d had in place for more than a decade. She was directly inciting violence against our organization, against USI, against innocent American lives.

Roberts: How was she doing this?

Hoskins: By openly going after Calvert. We were afraid that if she gained momentum, he would think that we sanctioned her mission and he would retaliate against us. Against innocent Americans.

Roberts: That sounds legitimate, if not like a talking point. But what about this Shannon Wright? Certainly her behavior didn’t warrant the shoot-to-kill order.

Hoskins: From what I understand, she attacked her supervisor, Paige, and he fought back. Let me be clear. Virginia Hart and Shannon Wright took matters into their own hands, endangered lives, completely destroyed a whole swath of our undercover work, and endangered many of our undercover agents. They are criminals and they were treated as criminals. We only followed protocol.

Roberts: It was our understanding that Virginia had asked to be put on Calvert’s case. But USI and the CIA jointly denied her requests though she had an impeccable and qualified record as a field agent. Even with her relation to her father, who was a highly-esteemed United States Senator for more than thirty years.

Hoskins: We had undercover agents at work.

Roberts: Like who?

Hoskins: Some of them are still undercover. I can’t name names.

Roberts: Understood.

Pause.

Roberts: You referred to Virginia as “Mrs. Hart.”

Hoskins: Excuse me?

Roberts: You referred to Virginia as “Mrs.” Virginia. I was under the assumption that she was single.

Hoskins: Yes, yes. She was unwed. I meant, “Ms.”

Roberts: What about Shannon?

Hoskins: Was she married? I don’t see how that’s relevant. But, no.

Roberts: Just a question.

Hoskins: Look, we didn’t kill Virginia and Shannon. They were killed by their own doing.

Roberts: But you did pull the trigger. What about Jake Turner?

Hoskins: He wasn’t supposed to be apart of this conversation.

Roberts: Maybe another time then.

Hoskins: Maybe.

Roberts: I guess the question is: was Virginia and Shannon’s undertaking successful or detrimental to our clandestine organizations?

Hoskins: Before I answer that, let me be very, extremely clear, for the sake of everyone involved. The shoot-to-kill order was necessary and wouldn’t have been given if it weren’t necessary. American lives were at stake. Innocent American lives. Virginia caused a whirlwind. Virginia and Shannon.

Roberts: And Jake.

Hoskins: Another time.

Hoskins finished up his interview with SOS Roberts and walked away with a bad taste in his mouth. He stepped out of the Capitol Building, unfolding his coat and putting it on his shoulders.